Where does Messer Industries USA, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Messer Industries USA, Inc. ranks #9,321 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Messer Industries USA, Inc. hold?

Messer Industries USA, Inc. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Messer Industries USA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Messer Industries USA, Inc. focus on?

Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s top technology area is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 10 patents, ranking #69 of 588 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +2700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s patents?

Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s patents average 11.8 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Messer Industries USA, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Messer Industries USA, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Messer ranks #9,321 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 36 technology areas.

#9,321
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +2700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9321 · Foreign Corporation #9,321 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,321/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Maquet Cardiopulmonary
CPC-FOCUS F25D · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Messer’s 50.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 12.3 pts (25%) Velocity 9.4 pts (19%) Breadth 21.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amolifescience · near

50
Esco Group · near

50
Messer Industries USA · this assignee

50
Shenzhen Sensetime… · near

50
Sphero · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Messer's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Messer?

Each dot is one of Messer’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Messer’s own 11.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Messer vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Messer's grants concentrate

Messer Industries USA, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 29.4% of grants classified under F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Messer sits between Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH and Nidec GPM GMBH.

Messer's three-year grant acceleration

Messer Industries USA, Inc. shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Maquet Cardiopulm…

34
Medtronic Ventor

34
Mercury Plastics

34
Merrimack Pharmac…

34
National Universi…

34
Neofect

34
Nextremity Soluti…

34
Nidec GPM

34
Messer Industries… ◀

34

What this shows Messer holds 34 patents at rank #9,327, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Messer

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,327 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25D (Refrigerators)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Messer's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Messer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25D (Refrigerators), Messer ranks #69 of 588 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Shenzhen Sensetime Technology Co., Ltd. 50 Sphero, Inc. 50 Esco Group LLC 50 Amolifescience Co., Ltd. 50

Messer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Messer Industries USA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	2.9%
2020	6	17.6%
2021	5	14.7%
2022	5	14.7%
2023	8	23.5%
2024	4	11.8%
2025partial year	5	14.7%

Which technologies does Messer Industries USA, Inc. patent most?

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 9

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 8

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 5

B01D - Separation 5

F23D - Burners 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

F23L - Supplying AIR OR Non-combustible Liquids OR Gases TO Combustion Apparatus IN General ; Valves OR Dampers Specially Adapted FOR Controlling AIR Supply OR Draught IN Combustion Apparatus ; Inducing Draught IN Combustion APPARATUS; Tops FOR Chimneys OR Ventilating SHAFTS; Terminals FOR Flues 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 3

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Messer Industries USA, Inc.'s lead technology class is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 29.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25D
Ranked #9,321 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Messer Industries USA, Inc. against Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

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Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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